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Spaceships

This probe is designed to elicit students’ ideas about changing the direction of motion in the absence of air. Many students will have seen movies o...

By Page Keeley and Rand Harrington

Middle School High School Assessment Physical Science

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Making Sound

The purpose of this assessment probe is to elicit students’ ideas about sound. The probe is designed to reveal whether students recognize that sound...

Middle School Assessment Physical Science

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Apple in a Plane

The purpose of this assessment probe is to elicit students’ ideas about force related to the interaction between inanimate objects. The probe is des...

By Page Keeley and Rand Harrington

Assessment Physical Science

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Does It Have to Touch?

The purpose of this assessment probe is to elicit beginning ideas about types of forces. The probe is designed to reveal whether students recognize th...

By Page Keeley and Rand Harrington

Assessment Physical Science

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Talking About Forces

The purpose of this assessment probe is to elicit beginning ideas about forces. The probe is designed to reveal whether students generally identify fo...

By Page Keeley and Rand Harrington

Elementary Assessment Physical Science

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Will It Form a New Substance?

The purpose of this assessment probe is to elicit students’ ideas about chemical change. The probe is designed to find out how students determine wh...

By Page Keeley and Susan Cooper

Middle School High School Assessment Physical Science

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Equal and Opposite

The purpose of this assessment probe is to elicit students’ ideas about pairs of forces that fit Newton’s third law. The probe is specifically des...

By Page Keeley and Rand Harrington

Middle School Assessment Physical Science

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Ice-Cold Lemonade

The purpose of this assessment probe is to elicit students’ ideas about transfer of energy. The probe is designed to determine whether students reco...

By Page Keeley

Middle School Assessment Physical Science

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Shadow Size

The purpose of this assessment probe is to elicit children’s ideas about how light interacts with an object to form a shadow. The probe is designed ...

By Page Keeley

Assessment Physical Science

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Chicken Eggs

The purpose of this assessment probe is to elicit students’ ideas about food, transformation of matter, growth and development, conservation of mass...

By Page Keeley and Joyce Tugel

Middle School High School Assessment Life Science

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Rotting Apple

The purpose of this assessment probe is to elicit students’ ideas about decay and decomposers. The probe can be used to determine whether students r...

By Page Keeley, Francis Eberle and Chad Dorsey

Assessment Life Science

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Digestive System

The purpose of this assessment probe is to elicit students’ ideas about the digestive system. The probe is designed to find out whether students rea...

By Page Keeley and Joyce Tugel

Middle School Assessment Life Science

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Mountaintop Fossil

The purpose of this assessment probe is to elicit students’ ideas about mountain formation. The probe is designed to determine whether students reco...

By Page Keeley

Assessment Earth & Space Science

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Adaptation

The purpose of this assessment probe is to elicit students’ ideas about biological adaptation. The probe is designed to find out if students think a...

By Page Keeley and Joyce Tugel

Middle School High School Assessment Life Science

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Ecosystem Cycles

The purpose of this assessment probe is to elicit students’ ideas about the transfer of matter and energy in ecosystems. The probe is designed to re...

By Page Keeley

Middle School High School Assessment Life Science

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